A Fukuokan's Notes from Sapporo

The city hall has had this walking path redone. The path used to be a natural-looking (it is actually artificially made—how could you find a natural footpath on a reclaimed land?) unpaved footpath.  And now, it has three surfaces: yellow asphalt, stone-pavement, and existed well-draining, well-treaded-down (artificial) earth, to entertain your feet. If you prefer, a mushier, wetland-like surface is also available.

Like many other cities in this country, Fukuoka is very much in debt (1.7 million yen per a citizen).

 How long the city hall wants to spend our tax money (or our debt) on this kind of projects?  …Personally I don’t need such an entertaining pavement. I just wish bin bags became free (I was about to forget to tell you. Unless you put your rubbish in "official" bin bags that cost 450 yen for 10 bags, binmen will not take your rubbish away)!